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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb

Ballymaconna, County Clare, Ireland

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915) covering the location of Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Ballymaconna, County Clare, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1915), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

The record

Townland
Ballymaconna
County
Clare
Country
Ireland
First-edition OS map
Dermot and Granias Bed
Latest-edition OS map
Dermot and Granias Bed (1920)
Coordinates
52.89298, -8.91948
SMR number
CL026-054----

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

4 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1753 map "Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae" (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1753 · Mappa geographica Regni Hiberniae (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1790 · Composite: Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1869 · Ireland. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1891 · Ireland 16 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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The National Monuments Service's description

At the W edge of a terrace, on the W-facing slope of a N-S ridge in pasture. Named ‘Dermot and Grania’s Bed’ on the 1840 and 1920 OS 6-inch maps. A rectangular chamber (c. 2m E-W; c. 1.45m N-S; max. H 1.7m), of which only the SW end is visible, consists of two side-stones and a single roofstone (2.5m E-W; c. 2.15m; T 0.3-0.4m). It is obscured by an overgrown cairn augmented with field stones (diam. c. 6m; max. H 1.9m). (Borlase 1897, vol. 1, 81, No. 3; Westropp 1900-02, 90; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1961, 64) 

Compiled by Michael Moore

Date of upload: 17 November 2025

 

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume I. County Clare. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1961)

Date of upload: 30 December 2011

References

Westropp, T.J. 1902-4 The cists, dolmens, and pillars in the eastern half of the county of Clare. PRIA 24C, 85-106. 

Borlase, W.C. 1897 The Dolmens of Ireland, 3 vols. London. Chapman and Hall. de Valera, R. and Ó Nualláin, S. 1961 Survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, vol. 1: County Clare. Dublin. Stationery Office.

Nearby in the register

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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